A court of Madrid has admitted to processing the claim of a family that denounced school bullying and injuries to his 13-year-old daughter at the British Councilin which she demands 35,000 euros from the center and several teachers for the damages suffered by the minor due to the “negligent” and “irregular” behavior of the teachers towards the victim.
This is a civil lawsuit that the family filed after the complaint they filed for alleged harassment and injuries that caused serious disruption to the girl was filed, and which, according to the lawsuit, It was closed “for purely formal reasons” and “without even analyzing whether or not the facts that are the subject of the aforementioned complaint could be considered criminal offenses.”
The minor’s family now claim 35,489 euros to the center and four people responsible for it in a lawsuit that the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 3 of Pozuelo de Alarcón has recently been admitted for processing, according to the decree in question. The parents of the minor denounce that the girl studied at the British Council from the time she was 3 years old until the 2021-2023 school year, “without ever having had any irregular behavior“, and with “excellent qualifications.”
In the 2021-2022 academic year, the girl was 13 years old and saw how a friend of hers suffered “serious episodes of bullying” by two other classmates, both in person and through messages, which motivated the parents of this minor. harassed reported the facts to the school, which narrowed the case to a inappropriate and punctual behavior. This motivated the parents of that girl – a friend of the one she is now denouncing – they will change her school and they will report what happened to the Police.
The family, who now see their lawsuit against the center admitted, decided to provide their daughter’s guardian the messages that they understand that they demonstrate the harassment suffered by their daughter’s friend, who had already left the center, but that tutor and other teachers urged them “not only to ignore the events that happened with their friend (…), but also to cease referring to them in public or private.”
Furthermore, according to the lawsuit, the defendants “devised a vile scheme aimed at deliberately forcing the departure of the minor of the school”, opening an investigation against her, for alleged bullying, and sanctioning her several times. The lawsuit details that from the end of March 2022 and during the month of April 2022 the minor was interrupted in her classes up to fifteen times. and “taken to the hallways or included in meetings with one or more teachers, in order to reiterate that I had to forget what happened with her friend.”
The minor’s health worsened and she had to stop going to school due to medical prescription. For their part, the parents denounced that the school was carrying out “a clear case of institutional harassment”, highlighting a “discriminatory and humiliating attitude” toward the girl with a “degree of suffering” that caused her serious physical and psychological damage.
Details the claim that the minor had to be treated in the Unit Eating Disorders from a hospital, he was diagnosed anorexia and they found that he had lost nine kilos in three months, with “very serious bone damage.” He also suffers from an adjustment disorder. Finally, the girl was discharged from the center in October 2022. The family provides an expert report from Dr. José Cabrera in which he considers the minor’s story credible and proves that she suffered “vertical harassment by some of her teachers.” “.
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